Of course they won’t. Ask the head of any private charity that isn’t politically motivated and they will tell you that their resources are completely inadequate to the job and that there are many people they’d like to help that they can’t. If Ron Paul did get his way and the government aid programs vanished this situation wouldn’t magically change. It’s just a way for libertarians to rationalize their incorrect, purely ideological beliefs.

Justin, if he became a more serious candidate and everything he’s written on lewrockwell.com that his followers seem to love became widely known do you really think his numbers would go up? The Religious Right wouldn’t like him because he says that he would allow some states to not ban abortion. The social liberals wouldn’t like him because he would not only allow states to ban abortion completely with no exceptions (In fact encouraging it.) but also believes that states should be allowed to control people’s private lives as shown in his article about Lawrence v. Texas where he defends the right of Texas to control homosexual behavior in private. No one who knows someone who really needs Medicaid, Medicare or Social Security would trust him because of his desire to eliminate the programs, correctly sensing that it would go wrong and there would be people who would suffer greatly. Once the digging began I really doubt his poll numbers would double. Especially when it comes out that Ron Paul supports a group that believes in the elimination of public education.

Check out http://www.westonaprice.com

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1. Folks, they’re ALL real polls, and when you collect them together you see trends that consistently put him in 5th or 6th place. Sure, he has won a bunch of straw polls, but those are a small piece of the puzzle. So to suggest that Paul is an exception is just wishful thinking. Sorry.

2. I keep talking about his 3rd party chances because that’s the only viable avenue for him. I know some of you think I’m trying to kill his candidacy, but nothing could be further from the truth. Currently, national polls show him taking around 9%, and he still hasn’t been introduced to the public as a whole yet. Once that happens, I would bet he’d poll much higher, probably in the low 20s. The result? He would most definitely get invited to the national debates. And if Paul is really a message candidate, he’ll take steps to make sure his message continues, even if he doesn’t win. The way to do that is to make sure he’s continually in the spotlight.

3. Yes, all of my analysis of Ron Paul and his campaign is merely a sinister way to drive traffic to the site and make the tens of dollars I now receive in ad revenue! It’s clearly not because his message is out of the mainstream POV and speaks to why I created this site in the first place! MooWAHAHA!!!

4. After reading some of your feedback, I think I might try some of that unpasteurized milk.

5. Happy holidays!

6. The end.

A tireless, vocal minority is rapidly becoming the majority. Government is the problem, not the solution. Socialism is alive and well, but it is not what this country was founded on and not what most of its citizens supports. The American Dream is about coming here, working hard, and succeeding. It is not about a welfare state (yes, that includes health care), running up huge debts, and perpetual war against imagined enemies.

Go Ron Paul!

Guys, give it a rest. Justin is merely trying to piss you guys off so that his web traffic stays high to justify those phat Internet ad revenue

Justin, you can’t argue with the fact that RP wins all the real polls not manipulated by fraudsters. And think about it? Would people who donate their hard earned cash not also tell all their friends about the guy and trek through snow to vote for him. A blizzard could come here, and I’d still start the car up to go to my damn polling station.

Get real man. Stay something really intelligent ‘cuz your credibility is in ‘da dumps right now.

I am a very strong Ron Paul supporter – not because I’m some lunatic anarchist spammer, but because I believe electing him would be the one of the biggest triumphs of democracy since the civil rights movement. This country is operating under *no* principles now. We cannot be the world’s one and only superpower forever, and as soon as people can let go of that expectation, the sooner we can get our economy to a healthy enough state to start considering new programs. I have more respect for socialists than I do modern-day liberals. I am tired of this on-again-off-again hate you one day love you the next, middle of the road politics. We should return to the set of principles that makes the government legitimate, the constitution.

While Rudy, Mitt and the Huckster keep shooting themselves in the foot (pretty dangerous when it’s always in their mouth!), Dr. Paul keeps consistent and strong, even when faced with leading, unfair, biased or just plain DUMB questions. On “FOX and Friends’ he was asked on for an interview. They spent most of the time playing Huckabee’s smarmy ‘Christmas’ commercial and trying to get Dr. Paul to say something they could criticise. When that failed, they went into “rorschock interview mode’ and asked him to give ONE WORD ANSWERS to a series of rapid-fire topics! His laughter at that was almost as funny as the looks on the faces of the anchors when he blew them away with his answers!

The media just can’t get their brains around the fact that behind the grandfatherly looks and the folksy manner of ROn Paul, their lies a formidable intellect and the ferocious wit of a Duke-Educated doctor and man who has written countless books on economic theory.

It’s great to watch people go into intellectual battle armed with zip guns, when the Good Dotor has a mind like a Howitzer!

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HILLARY CLINTON WILL HAVE TO EARN A VICTORY, NOT GET IT HANDED TO HER BY A RON PAUL THIRD PARTY RUN.

QUIT DREAMING, YOUR SICK FANTASY OF RON PAUL SPLITTING THE REPUBLICAN VOTE IN A REMAKE OF 1992 IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

I HATE YOU

C’mon, wake up sleepy head…

Personally, I want the Federal Government Out Of Welfare. There has never been any incentive to get off of it.

Americans Will Take Care Of Their Own.

Government Does Nothing Well. ( Except Fraud, Waste And Abuse )

America is being undermined on many fronts. The one most eminent is our Bankruptcy. Fueled by War, Empire Maintenance, and Fallacious Spending of congress; The economic Overtaking of America will not be far off. The effects are just now becoming evident. We will be sold to our enemies rather than forced into submission.

Ron Paul is the only candidate running for president that has the vision of the founding fathers of this country ingrained in his heart. Core Character Counts. He is the only one in the field that I would trust my money and my family’s safety with.

The honesty and integrity displayed by Ron Paul coupled with the message he espouses is the glue that binds the support together. The word could not do it alone and this is precisely why The Media and the others are baffled. The Ron Paul Supporters Value Substance Over Symbolism. We fully believe that Ron Paul will follow his words as his record shows. He is not as the others with Pandering Platitudes.

The commonality with all Americans is the Constitution. This is why his support group can not be pigeon holed in to a specific category. We Are Diverse And Many. There is no singular stereotype that even comes close to the specification of the group.

Some sites I recommend you visit to get a better understanding:

A particular good read: http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2003/cr012903.htm

Others:

http://www.ronpaullibrary.org

http://www.house.gov/paul/

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/about/

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Paul

Think For Yourself; Do Not Be Easily Led.

Views Untested Are Worthless.

Hope you damn Yankees get some sense and elect Ron Paul. Would be better for all of us.

not for farmers. without all your precious subsidies you can kiss all your farms goodbye.

i’m always amazed at how republicans can get a certain portion of the american public to constantly vote against their own self interests.

so odd.

boy THAT sounds like a good idea…

paul’s just as “principled” as bush was. i don’t see any reason to think otherwise. he holds ridiculous fiscal ideas that even u of c economists think are bad, he doesn’t believe in the separation of church and state yet cries about the nation’s departure from the constitution…

the guy’s as much a politicians as all the rest of them. he just hides it well. mostly because he hasn’t had occasion for it to come out. he’s not a romney. or a giuliani. there’s no reason for the news outlets to look into him that intensely yet.

I am sick to death of the fact that so many otherwise decent people in our country are so tragically ignorant of the great body of political and philisophical thought that helped us become a ‘great’ nation.

Granted, thing are a bit hosed right now, and the options being offered up are not real sexy, but let us not lose sight of the fact that our government can act, and has historically acted as a force of good. No, not lately.

Vaccines, literacy programs, integration, yep… pasteurization, flouride, medicare, schools, attempts at peace… the list is endless and if you think Noblesse Oblige (look it up stoner) is going to save your sorry ass from the predatory instincts of the real world you got another thing coming.

So think about what might be done to fix our government instead of “tossing’ it. Your claim that you don’t want governmnet protections seems to indicate that you are ignorant of your need for them. Ron Paul’s appeal is strong evidence of the weakness of our public education system. To conclude that our weak public education system should be discarded because it is weak…..well…

Plain talk is easy, but the whole picture requires language that everybody doesn’t understand. Don’t lose hope though, there are options.

Vote for Ron Paul if you must, but it isn’t going to get you laid.

(oh, and James, my quick internet search leads me to believe that Mr. Nader is most likely to back John Edwards)

CBS reports that he is running third in Iowa. 12 more days to move up in the blind sighted polls before the voting begins.